Globe-lifting device for lanterns.



No. 858,991. PATENTED JULY-251907. D. 0. KLINB. GLOBE LIPTING DEVICE FOR LANTERNSQ APPLICATION FILED JULY 21, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID C. KLIN E, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGN OR TO THE PRITOHnRD-STRON G COM- PANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

GLOBE-LIFTING- DEVICE FOR LANTERNS.

Patented July 2, 1907.

Application filed July 21, 1905. .Serial No. 270.639.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID C. KLINE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Globe- Lifting Devices for Lanterns, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to globe lifting devices for lanterns, and consists in the mechanism hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings:Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of a lantern embodying this invention; Fig. 2 is a side view of the same device, the side tubes of the lantern being removed and the parts being-in the same position as in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a side view of the same parts and portion of the device as Fig. 2, with the globe in the raised position.

In the drawings, 1 is the usual oil pot, 2 is the gallery, 3 is the burner cone, 4 l are the side tubes, which are usually connected with the gallery 2. To the side tubes are connected on one side a semi circular guard wire 5 permanently fixed in position, and a semicircular wire 6, corresponding in shape and position to the guard wire 5, is raised to the other side of the globe 7. The globe plate 8 rests upon the burner cone 3, and is provided with side wires 99 extending upwardly therefrom, and provided with irregularities of shape so as to engage guides 10, 10 fastened to the lantern frame, and in the present instance to the side tubes 4. To the globe plate 8 is attached a link 12, which, in the present instance, is so attached by connection through. one of the side wires. The link 12 has a right angle bend at its lower end, which extends through a socket bearing 13 attached to the globe plate 8 through the side wire. The upper end of the link 12 is connected to the guard wire 6. In the present case this attachment is by means of the loop 14. The guard wire 6 has cranks 15, 15 at its ends, the extremities whereof extend into sockets in the side tubes 10, such, for instance, as perforations 16. When the middle of the bend of the semicircular end of the guard wire 6 is tilted upward into the position shown in Fig. 3, the globe plate 8 will, through the link 12, be pulled upward and lifted away from the burner cone 3; and when the guard wire 6 is lowered into the horizontal position of the Figs. 1 and 2, the globe plate 8 is lowered upon the burner cone 3.

In order to sustain the guard wire 6 in the position in which the globe plate is lifted (see Fig. 3), the elastic side wires 9, 9 may have notches or depressions 17, which engage the guides 10, 10, and thus sustain the globe plate in the elevated position; an additional side or the other thereof.

means may, if desired, be provided for this purpose consisting in the projection or wedge shaped plate 18 on one of the side tubes 4, which engages the movable guard wire 6, so that said guard wire is obliged to bend as it passes along said plate, and thereby snaps on one In the present case, the wedge shaped plate 18 engages the bend between the semi circular portion and the crank 15 of the guard wire 6, and the pressure of the wedge shaped plate is such as to tend to increase the radius of curvature of said guard wire. In the elevated position of the guard-wire 6 shown in Fig. 3, the crank 15 of the guard-wire rests on the upper edge or side of the angle of the plate 18; and in the lower position of the guardwire 6, the crank 15 is vertical, as shown in Fig. 1, and lies in the concave part of the plate 18, and the guardwire lies under the lower edge of the plate. The plate 18 is curved, as shown in Fig. 1. The plate 18 is angular, so that the guard wire may engage it on opposite sides of its angle.

It is obvious that the link or connection 12 between the globe plate and the guard wire 6 may be connected to the latter at any point adjacent to the pivots but out of line therewith.

What I claim is v 1. In a globe lifting device for lanterns, the combina: tion of a lantern frame, a globe frame comprising a globe plate and vertical side wires attached thereto, guides for said side wires in said frame, a guard wire pivoted at its ends in said frame, a link connected at one end to the globe plate adjacent to the connection of a side wire thereto and to said guard wire at a point out of line with a pivot thereof and a projection on said lantern frame over which said guard-wire is sprung for holding the globe raised or lowered.

2. In a globe lifting device for lanterns, the combina tion of a lantern frame, a, globe plate, a guard wire pi oted at its ends in said frame, a link connected at one end to the globe plate and at the other end to the guard wire at a point out of the line of the pivots thereof, and an angular plate on said frame adapted to be engaged by the guard wire on opposite sides of the angle in the extreme positions thereof.

3. In a globe lifting device for lanterns, the combination of a lantern frame, a globe frame comprising a globe plate and vertical side wires attached thereto, guides for said side wires in said frame, a guard wire pivoted at its ends in said frame, a link connected at one end to the globe plate adjacent to the connection of a side wire thereto and to said guard wire at a point out of line with a pivot thereof, and an angular plate on said frame adapted to be engaged by the guard wire adjacent to its pivot on opposite sides of the angle of said plate.

DAVID C. KLINE.

Witnesses D. GURNEE, L. THON. 

